Your 2 Cents’ Worth: Tuesday, June 27

Doing surgery on your puppy? Where are the laws putting these people in jail? We need to speak up for these poor animals & where are our legislators? I am SURE they have animals as pets also, where are YOU? Who are you protecting??? Speak up, we are the wardens of animals on this earth, come ON!

— Who are you protecting, not the animals!

Nothing will turn you into a cynic faster than watching how industrial farm groups play Iowa politicians like violins.

— Watched it happening for forty years

So the president describes Mueller's relationship with Comey bothersome. I find the president's relationship with Putin and the Russians bothersome. Anyone else find this bothersome?

— Get past the phoniness please

I would vote for any politician if they would run on a platform to have the same healthcare as the American people, not give themselves automatic retirement after one term in office and if they are absent and don't vote on pending legislation then there is no paycheck.

— Be Practical

Trump threw his same rhetoric out at Cedar Rapids rally, bragging about all he had done; supporters clapped and cheered! He was fact checked on everything; all proven to be an exaggeration or a flat out lie. Amazing, how many "gullible, uninformed" (in lieu of saying ignorant) Iowans there are.

— Truly Amazed in 50401

My husband was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and, years later, developed PSP, A brain deterioration disease, from that earlier exposure. The VA doctors told us that my husband had at most a few years to live. He lived 2 more years. I am so grateful to the VA for their top quality care for my husband and guidance for me in being his caretaker. For us the VA health system has been a blessing.

— A grateful wife

Joni is wrong: It's not the ACA that is unsustainable, it's our defense spending -- 3 times what China spends, close to 10 times what Russia spends. And that doesn't include the VA, Homeland Security, OR the trillions we have spent in Iraq & Afghanistan.

— Get Realistic!

I have a fun game I play when people honk their horn when locking their vehicle. I will honk mine and watch and laugh at people who look at their car wondering it is locked and use their remote to honk again to "lock" it. Try the door handle to see if it is really locked and don't rely on your horn.